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Participant Experience: CESAR Project. Mladen Stanojevi ć, PhD Institute Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia Mladen.Stanojevic@pupin.rs Information Day for Call 7 of ICT PSP Belgrade , 28.02.2013. Outline. CESAR consortium P roject o bjectives Activities of Serbian partners How we got involved
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Participant Experience:CESAR Project Mladen Stanojević, PhD Institute Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia Mladen.Stanojevic@pupin.rs Information Day for Call 7 of ICT PSP Belgrade, 28.02.2013
Outline CESAR consortium Projectobjectives Activities of Serbian partners How we got involved Preparation of project proposal Project administration Advices to newcomers
Geo-linguistic position • CESAR stands for CEntral and Southeast EuropeAn Resources • Operates as integral part of META-NET • Geo-linguistic spread • Central and Southeast Europe • three inner seas: Baltic, Adriatic, Black Sea • CESAR covers languages • PolishEU, 38M (40-48M) • Slovak EU, 5.4M (7M) • Hungarian EU, 10M (16M) • CroatianEU in 2013, 4.4M (5.5M) • Serbian candidate, 7.3M (9M) • BulgarianEU, 7.5M (9M) • All languages Slavic, except Hungarian
Project objectives • Provide a description of the national landscape in terms of • Language use, language-savvy products and services, languagetechnologies and resources • Contribute to a pan-European digital language resources exchange(META-SHARE) • Enhance, extend, document, standardize, cross-link, cross-align resources and tools • Mobilise national and regional stakeholders, public bodies and funding • Reinvigorate cooperation between key technology partners in the region • Collaborate with other partner projects • Bridge the technological gap between this region and the other parts of Europe
Where to find CESAR www.meta-net.eu
Activities of Serbian partners • University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics • Several language resources in Serbian (Serbian WordNet, monolingual and multilingual corpora, dictionaries, etc.) • Institute Mihajlo Pupin • Make NooJ open source • Make NooJ platform independent • Make NooJ maximally interoperable by making sure it will seamlessly work with major tools • Common activities • The Serbian Language in the Digital Age, LWP Series, Springer, 2012 • CESAR Roadshow dissemination event, Belgrade, October 2012
How we got involved EC diagnosed an acute lack of language resources for many European Langauges META-NET FP7 Network of Excellence ICT PSP Call for proposals to enhance language resources for different European languages (CESAR, META-NORD, METANET4U) Institute Mihajlo Pupin is not involved in developing language technologies or providing language resources Prof. Sanja Vraneš is an evaluator for FP7 ICT project proposals (Digital Content, Language Technologies)
Preparation of project proposal Provide a PIC and appoint LEAR Find and join the consortium Fill-in Part A online forms Create Part B (what will be done in the project)
Project administration • Technical administration • Activities according to DoW (deliverables on time) • Review meetings (reviewers check the work done comparing to DoW) • Financial administration • Timesheets • Salaries • Receipts for all costs (travel, equipment, subcontracting, etc.) • Financial reports
Advices for newcomers Competition is much lower than for FP7 project proposals Improve your networking (evaluators, reviewers for FP7 projects) Do not act as a Project Coordinator, but join an existing consortium Appoint F/A officer for efficient administration of the project All activities are funded 50% by the EC, so you have to provide another 50% on your own
Q/A Thank you very much for your attention! http://www.cesar-project.net office@meta-net.eu http://www.meta-net.eu http://www.facebook.com/META.Alliance